Theater Quotes

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

After Peepshow, I really dont know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.